Erin Allman‑Updyke

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This Podcast Will Kill You · Ep 221 Electroconvulsive Therapy Part 2: A current conversation · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

The first couple of weeks, some people might have problems with attention or things like executive functioning, like being able to do the kind of high-level tasks that you might have to do to say run a household or something like that.

But what's really interesting is that most of the data on most aspects of cognitive function are that they actually improve after ECT.

In the long term.

Exactly.

And we don't know why that is, except that maybe it's because we've improved the depressive symptoms, especially, right?

And that depression has a huge impact on cognitive functioning.

But memory is a different story.

Yes.

And there's two types of memory loss that can happen with ECT.

There's something called anterograde amnesia.

And that's difficulty retaining new information after the procedure.

So, like you do the procedure, you go home and you're like, I don't know where I put my keys today.

I can't remember what's on the schedule for today.

What did you tell me this morning?

Did we have a conversation?

Those kinds of things.

Forming memories.

Forming new memories.

And this can actually get worse over the course of ECT, since this is going to be, you know, anywhere from six to 18 or more sessions.

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